| SES # | Topics | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction - To an Experiment and a Century Objectives: To provide some basic grounding in the historical period, to establish the parameters of this subject, and to adapt our plan to fit the interests of our student participants. | |
| 2 | Discussion of Brecht's Galileo Objectives: To examine one twentieth-century playwright's artistic practice, to establish our abilities and approaches as readers of drama, and to consider the reasons for writing historical drama set in the seventeenth century. | Brecht, Bertolt. Galileo. If you have already read Galileo, please review the play and read: Lovejoy, Arthur. "The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography." |
| 3 | Galileo in Historical Perspective: Developing Questions | Lovejoy, Arthur. "The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography. "Dunn, Richard S. "The Puritan Revolution." ———. "The Century of Genius." (Skim) |
| 4 | Discussion of King Lear | Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things. Chapter 1. |
| 5 | The Changes Across a Century: The Example of Tate's King Lear | Tate, Nahum. King Lear. Selections from Tillyard and Willey |
| 6 | Discussion with Historian of Science Arne Hessenbruch | Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Chapter 1. |
| 7 | John Ford's The Broken Heart Optional Event: Literature presentation by playwright Max Hafler: "Faustus: Adapting and Directing the Elizabethan Bad Boy, Christopher Marlowe." | Ford, John. The Broken Heart. Brockett. History of the Theater. Chapter 9. |
| 8 | Guest Scholar | Selections from The Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Atomic Age. Edited by Eugen Weber. |
| 9 | Discussion of Brome's The Antipodes and Caroline Theater | Brome, Richard. The Antipodes. |
| 10 | Discussion of Shirley's The Cardinal | Shirley, James. The Cardinal. |
| 11 | Visit from Prof. Mary Campbell, Poet and Author of Wonder and Science | Readings in poetry and science. |
| 12 | Visit from Prof. Ellen Harris on Davenant and Music | Readings on masques, music, and voice. |
| 13 | Prof. Sonenberg's Solo Day | |
| 14 | The Civil War, in History and Art | |
| 15 | Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire | Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Selections by Christopher Hill. |
| 16 | Poetry, Language, Wit | Selections from Browne, Milton, and Marvell. |
| 17 | Discussion of Two Versions of Hydriotaphia | Kushner, Tony. Hydriotaphia. |
| 18-19 | Experiments, Round One | |
| 20 | Reports and Discussion | |
| 21-22 | Reports and Break-outs | |
| 23-24 | That Which Needs Doing | |
| 25-26 | Experiments, Round Two |
Table of Contents
Study Materials
Readings
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A list of readings by session is presented below.
Required Texts
Brecht, Bertolt. Galileo. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780802130594.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. London, UK: A&C Black, 1985. ISBN: 9780413566706.
Ford, John. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays. Edited by Marion Lomax. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780192834492.
Kushner, Tony. Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia and Other Plays. New York, NY: Theatre Communications Group, 1998. ISBN: 9781559361569.
Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Edited by R. A. Foakes. London, UK: Thomson Learning, 1997. ISBN: 9780174434603.
Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780691024325.
Other Assigned Readings
Barish, Jonas. "Puritanism, Popery, and Parade." The Antitheatrical Prejudice. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780520052161.
Behn, Aphra. "Not to sigh and to be tender." In Lycidus. 1688.
———. "To the Honourable Edward Howard, on his Comedy Called The New Utopia." In Poems on Several Occasions. 1684.
Betterton, Thomas. "The Qualifications of a Player." In Actors on Acting. Edited by Toby Cole and Henen Krich Chinoy. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780517884782.
Blake, Anne Beckwith. "'To Keepe her Spotles from an Act of Ill': The Construct of an Elizabethan Woman."
Bordinat, Philip, and Sophia B. Blaydes. Sir William Davenant. Boston, MA: Twayne, 1981, chronology and chapter 1. ISBN: 9780805767957.
Boyle, Robert. Selections.
Brockett, Oscar G., and Franklin J. Hildy. History of the Theater. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2002, chapters 5 and 9. ISBN: 9780205358786.
Brome, Richard. The Antipodes.
Browne, Thomas. Hydriotaphia, or Urne Buriall.
Butler, Martin. "The Condition of the Theatres in 1642." In The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol I, Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521650403.
Butler, Martin. Theatre and Crisis: 1632-1642. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1984, chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780521246323.
Carew, Thomas. "To His Inconstant Mistress." (See a version of this text from Bartleby.)
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. "A Dialogue Between the Body, and the Minde." In Philosophicall Fancies. 1653.
———. "Of the Motion of the Planets." In Philosophicall Fancies. 1653.
———. Sociable Letters. Edited by James Fitzmaurice. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, letter 9, pp. 18-19. ISBN: 9780815324515.
Clare, Janet. "General Introduction: The Theatre and Cultural Revolution." In Drama of the English Republic, 1649-1660. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780719044823.
———. "Theatre and Commonwealth." In The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol. 1, Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521650403.
Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millenium. USA: Oxford University Press, 1970, conclusion and appendix: The "Free Spirit.". ISBN: 9780195004564.
Dillon, Janette. "Theatre and Controversy, 1603-1642." In The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol. 1, Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521650403.
Dunn, Richard S. "The Century of Genius." In The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1689. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1970.
———. "The Puritan Revolution." In The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1689. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1970.
Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1973, forward, preface, and chapters 1 and 2.
Harris, Ellen T. "Musical Declamation." In Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780193152533.
———. Handel and the Pastoral Tradition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 109-128. ISBN: 9780193152366.
Hawley, Judith. "Keep the Bunsens Burning." The Guardian, April 3, 2004.
Herrick, Robert. "Mrs. Eliz: Wheeler, Under the Name of the Lost Shepherdess."
Hill, Christopher. The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1982, appendices A-D. ISBN: 9780393300161.
———. The World Turned Upside Down. New York, NY: Penguin, 1984, chapters 1 and 2. ISBN: 9780140137323.
Jones, Inigo. Selected sketches.
Jonson, Ben. "Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court." In Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques. Edited by Robert M. Adams. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1979. ISBN: 9780393090352.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. "Spirit and Reason at the Birth of Modern Science." In Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780300065954.
Knutson, Roslyn L. "Working Playwrights, 1580-1642." In The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol 1, Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521650403.
Lovejoy, Arthur. "The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography." In The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. New York, NY: Harper, 1960.
Milling, Jane. "The Development of a Professional Theatre, 1540-1660." In The Cambridge History of British Theatre Volume I: Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521650403.
Milton, John. "On Shakespeare, 1630." (See a version of this text from Bartleby.)
———. Paradise Lost. Book 1. (Download a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.)
Morton, A. L. "Religion and Politics in the English Revolution." In The World of the Ranters. London, UK: Laurence and Wishart, 1970. ISBN: 9780853152200.
Moulsworth, Martha. "The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow."
Norbrook, David, ed. The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse. New York, NY: Penguin, 1993, pp. 163-601: selections by Parker, Herrick, Marvell, Mure, Philips, Milton, Brome, Lovelace, Anonymous, and Wild. ISBN: 9780140423464.
Ollard, Richard. This War Without an Enemy. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1976. ISBN: 9780689107597.
Parry, Graham. Selections from The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1603-1700. Boston, MA: Longman, 1989. ISBN: 9780582493766.
Pearson, Henry Greenleaf. "Introduction." In The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Edited by Robert Emmons Rogers. Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921.
Philips, Katherine. "Upon the Double Murther of K. Charles I in Answer to a Libellous Copy of Rimes by Vavasor Powell." Poems. 1667.
Ridley, Jasper. "Henry VIII and the Religious Revolution." In The History of England. London, UK: Routledge, 1982. ISBN: 9780710007940.
Roach, Joseph R. In The Player's Passion. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1985, preface and chapter 1. ISBN: 9780874132656.
Sanders, Julie. Caroline Drama. Tavistock, UK: Northcote House, 1999, biographical and historical outline and chapter 1. ISBN: 9780746308776.
Seaver, Paul S. Wallington's World. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988, preface and chapters 1 and 2. ISBN: 9780804714327.
Sellar, Walter Carruthers, and Robert Julian Yeatman. 1066 and All That. London, UK: Methuen, 1991, compulsory preface and pp. 70-81. ISBN: 9780413772701.
Shapin, Steven. "The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge." In Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780226470146.
Shapin, Steven. A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995, chapters 2, 3, and 4. ISBN: 9780226750194.
Shirley, James. The Cardinal.
Smuts, Malcom. "Rethinking the Political Context."
Spenser, Edmund. Selections.
Stone, Laurence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. New York, NY: Penguin, 1990, pp. 483-527. ISBN: 9780140137217.
Tate, Nahum. "The History of King Lear." In Adaptations of Shakespeare. Edited by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier. London, UK: Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415198943.
Theocritus. Selections.
Tyler, Margaret. The Mirrour of Princely Deeds and Knighthood." 1578, preface.
Virgil. Selections.
Weber, Eugen, ed. The Western Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Atomic Age. Boston, MA: DC Heath, 1959, pp. 362-397 and 410-423: Selections by Grimmelshausen, Mun, Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Hobbes.